For years, Colorado Parks and Wildlife officers have driven out to the eastern plains in the middle of the night, a predator’s hunting hours, in hopes of spotting a pair of green, gleaming eyes.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife released endangered black-footed ferrets on May Ranch in Lamar, Colo. on Nov. 14, with the help of students from Lamar Middle School (Amanda Pampuro/Courthouse News). LAMAR ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (LAMAR, Colo.) — Biologists in southeastern Colorado are using drone technology to track and study endangered black-footed ferrets ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If only black-footed ferrets had a brand ambassador like groundhogs have in Punxsutawney Phil. The endangered ferrets don’t quite ...

Of all the communities across America impacted by the government shutdown, the population of endangered black-footed ferrets may be among the smallest and most vulnerable. This rare species, ...

Animals born from cloned endangered species are no longer just for the silver screens of “Jurassic Park.” They might just be a model for species conservation. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In the open grasslands of South Dakota, not far from the dramatic rock formations of ...

Wildlife conservationists are celebrating a big milestone reached by a little black-footed ferret and her offspring, born at the Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute earlier ...

Cloned black-footed ferret Antonia's kits at three weeks old, on July 9, 2024. Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, Public Domain In a victory for conservation, a cloned ...